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While speaking to The Huffington Post, “Spider-Man” actor Tom Holland confirmed a longstanding fan theory that Peter Parker is, in fact, in “Iron Man 2”! Holland said the following: “I can confirm that as of today. I literally had a conversation with Kevin Feige only 20 minutes ago. Maybe I’ve just done a big, old spoiler, but it’s out there now. It’s cool. I like the idea that Peter Parker has been in the universe since the beginning.” The scene in question features “Peter, long before he became Spider-Man, [who] was present at the Stark Expo wearing an Iron Man helmet. Things had turned into a panic when it turned out that Justin Hammer’s security drones had been reprogrammed to destroy everything in sight and target Iron Man. Mistaking the masked child for the genuine Iron Man, one drone prepared to attack the kid as he mimicked the Golden Avenger’s repulsor beam. At this point, Iron Man showed up to blow both the drone and a young Peter away, quipping ‘Nice work kid!” right before flying off as the kid has one heck of a story to tell his adoptive parents.’ In related news, “Homecoming” director Jon Watts also commented on the confirmation of this fan theory, saying the following: “You make the joke about that, but basically when I rewatched all the Marvel movies, I was watching them like that. I was watching all these other movies and being like, ‘What if that little kid at the Stark Expo was Peter Parker? In the Iron Man mask.’ Like, he’d be about the right age for that. And he loves Tony Stark. ‘Oh, what about after the ‘Avengers’ battle, who would clean that stuff up?’ Because they mention damage control at one point in the movie. So it’s this thing where, because it’s not completely figured out, that you can just go back and basically write fan fiction for those movies, then the fan fiction becomes reality. A lot of the Easter eggs in this movie just started by rewatching the movies.” (Continued in the comments!)